A 76-year-old pedestrian was injured fatally when she was struck by a truck early Tuesday evening as she was walking across Main St. in McSherrystown after alighting from a bus at Fourth St.
Mrs. Annie Margaret Livelsberger, Hanover, Edge Grove, was pronounced dead on arrival at Hanover Hospital at 6:15 p.m. by Dr. A. A. Tananis. She was moved to the institution in the McSherrystown Fire Company ambulance.
Corroner Lester J. Sell attributed death to shock and fractured skull, pelvis and left hip. He is continuning an investigation.
Cheif of Police Manard Masemer said the truck was operated bu Robert H. Smith, 26, of Hanover, Smith who is a member of WGET told Masemer he did not see the woman until the truck had struck her.
A witness told Coroner Sell Mrs. Livelsberger left the bus headed east on the south side of the street and was walking to the northside. The truck was noving west. It is owned bu Millard H. Klunk, Hanover. Relatives said Mrs. Livelsberger was enroute to a nearby hairdresser's shop.
A daughter of the late George and Rosina Groft. Mrs. Livelsberger was employed bu the B.P. Topper Cigar Company, McSherrystown.
She was a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Conewago; the Sodalith of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the National Council of Catholic Women and the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Conewago Fire Company. Her husband, Benjamin F. Liveslberger, died December 10, 1954.
Surviving are; five children, Marian Livelsberger, at home; Gerald, Richard and Thomas all of McSherrystown; Bernard Livelsberger of Hanover; 22 grandchildren and six brothers and sisters, Charles Groft, Mrs. Claudine Lawrence, Mrs. Charles Klunk and Mrs Joseph Hockensmith, all of New Oxford; Eugene Groft, New Haven, Conn., and Joseph Groft, McSherrystown.
Funeral services Saturday morning meeting at the Livelsberger home at 8:30 o'clock with a Requiem Mass at 9 o'clock at Conewago Chapel with the Rev. Fr. Bolen as celebrant. Intement in COnewago Chapel Cemetery.
Obit in the Gettysburg Times, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 1956.
Added Apr. 19, 2013 at 5:52 p.m.
A 76-year-old pedestrian was injured fatally when she was struck by a truck early Tuesday evening as she was walking across Main St. in McSherrystown after alighting from a bus at Fourth St.
Mrs. Annie Margaret Livelsberger, Hanover, Edge Grove, was pronounced dead on arrival at Hanover Hospital at 6:15 p.m. by Dr. A. A. Tananis. She was moved to the institution in the McSherrystown Fire Company ambulance.
Corroner Lester J. Sell attributed death to shock and fractured skull, pelvis and left hip. He is continuning an investigation.
Cheif of Police Manard Masemer said the truck was operated bu Robert H. Smith, 26, of Hanover, Smith who is a member of WGET told Masemer he did not see the woman until the truck had struck her.
A witness told Coroner Sell Mrs. Livelsberger left the bus headed east on the south side of the street and was walking to the northside. The truck was noving west. It is owned bu Millard H. Klunk, Hanover. Relatives said Mrs. Livelsberger was enroute to a nearby hairdresser's shop.
A daughter of the late George and Rosina Groft. Mrs. Livelsberger was employed bu the B.P. Topper Cigar Company, McSherrystown.
She was a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Conewago; the Sodalith of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the National Council of Catholic Women and the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Conewago Fire Company. Her husband, Benjamin F. Liveslberger, died December 10, 1954.
Surviving are; five children, Marian Livelsberger, at home; Gerald, Richard and Thomas all of McSherrystown; Bernard Livelsberger of Hanover; 22 grandchildren and six brothers and sisters, Charles Groft, Mrs. Claudine Lawrence, Mrs. Charles Klunk and Mrs Joseph Hockensmith, all of New Oxford; Eugene Groft, New Haven, Conn., and Joseph Groft, McSherrystown.
Funeral services Saturday morning meeting at the Livelsberger home at 8:30 o'clock with a Requiem Mass at 9 o'clock at Conewago Chapel with the Rev. Fr. Bolen as celebrant. Intement in COnewago Chapel Cemetery.
Obit in the Gettysburg Times, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 1956.
Added Apr. 19, 2013 at 5:52 p.m.
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